The Ministry of Public Health resumes this Monday the Pueblo a Pueblo vaccination campaignthis time in 190 locations in 11 departments, reported the Undersecretary of Health, José Luis Satdjian, on Twitter. On this occasion, The aim will be to extend the coverage of the population with the third dose and also to increase the coverage of the doses for children.
Satdjian indicated in the tweet that the coordination of each department will be in charge of their departmental directions. The undersecretary explained to The Observer that the end of the campaign in each area of the country It will depend on each department.
The first edition of the People to People campaign started in May 2021in order to vaccinate without schedule with Pfizer doses to more than 150 thousand people from 300 villagesat that time with your first or second dose.
With the arrival of the omicron variant, some departmental directors of Health stressed that this campaign had helped improve the number of vaccinated populationand that a new edition was necessary to reach certain populations with the third dose.
The departmental health director of Treinta y Tres, José Quintín Olano, told The Observer in December that thanks to the People to People campaign localities had been reached where vaccination had not reachedand even nucleus, which later had been difficult to convince for a new vaccine.
The director of Río Negro, Juan Andrés Montaño, indicated at that time that thanks to this move without an agenda, in addition to the Barrio a Barrio campaign, it had been possible to reach a group of people who later could not be recruited to be vaccinated with a booster dose.
